[16] “The Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians,” II., pp. 16. (Occult Publishing Co., Boston, Mass., 1888).
[17] “Paracelsus,” p. 168. (London, 1887: Trübner & Co.)
[18] The regenerated spiritual man is not a dream or an unrealisable ideal, but far more substantial than the terrestrial man. William Law says: “Where Christ is born or His Spirit rises up in the soul, there all self is denied and obliged to turn out, there all carnal wisdom, arts of advancement, with every pride and glory of this life, are so many heathen idols, all willingly renounced, and the man is not only content, but rejoices to say that his kingdom is not of this world.” (“William Law,” London, 1893.) See also “Jacob Boehme,” page 263. London, 1891.
[19] “Theosophical Siftings.” Alchemy. (London: Theo. Pub. Soc., 1891.)
[20] We purposely say “carbogen” and not “carbon,” because we refer to that invisible element, whose product upon the visible plane is carbon or coal.
[21] As we are not writing for children, it is unnecessary to refute the puerile objection and say that the sixty-four so-called single bodies of chemistry are not elements of nature, although they may be regarded as the elements of the science of chemistry.
[22] In everything are there five elements or qualities contained, because everything consists of vibrations of the one element, called by the Alchemists prima materia, in which these qualities are latent (potentially contained). Everything is a manifestation of substance. That which is essential in it, is the substance and not the form. Thus for instance that which is essential in a diamond is the carbon; but carbon is not composed of diamonds. Carbon is a substance universally distributed in nature in solid, watery, gaseous, fiery form, and all these forms of carbon are certain states of the one element “Carbogen” which is at the root of their existence.
[23] Vach.—If we remember that according to the Bible all things were made of the Word, and that “the Word was God” (John i., 1), we may obtain the key to the understanding of what generated the Akâsa.
[24] Occult Publ. Co., Boston, Mass.; and Theosoph. Publ. Soc., London.
[25] Occult Publ. Co., Boston, Mass.; and Theosoph. Publ. Soc., London.